Cowhouse attached to Graig Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Cowhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Cowhouse attached to Graig Farmhouse

WRENN ID
final-transept-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 June 1990
Type
Cowhouse
OS grid reference
SH 711 170
Coordinates
52.73548, -3.90986
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a cowhouse attached to Graig Farmhouse, dating from the 18th century. It is a one and a half storey structure with two windows, featuring a hall/kitchen and two service rooms. The exterior is constructed of rubble masonry, which is whitewashed at the front. It has a steeply pitched new slate roof with skylights at the rear, plain eaves, and raking gable parapets. There is a 19th-century stone stack on the right side.

The cowhouse has 19th-century gabled stone dormers and Victorian sash windows, with similar windows on the ground floor. The left window is enlarged, and there is a stone lintel above the right window. The central doorway has a modern door with a stone lintel above it. To the right, there is a modern rubble extension with a corrugated lean-to roof, and the rear elevation has two windows.

The cowhouse, which replaced an earlier structure that was possibly made of timber, is located to the left and downslope of the farmhouse. It features coursed rubble masonry and a steeply pitched slate roof with raking gable parapets. There are three doorways stepping downhill, each with stone lintels, and a loft entry at the rear from higher ground.

Inside, the cowhouse originally had through purlin collared trusses, but these have been replaced with modern ties and reinforcements. It was originally fully lofted. The interior includes stop-chamfered ceiling beams and joists, a deep timber bressumer above a broad fireplace, a 19th-century central pillar, and a door leading to a stone stair on the left.

Local climate

Cowhouse attached to Graig Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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